Congratulations to Kelly DiPucchio and Eric Wight! 24,210 Children voted for the winning book! Also, a heartfelt thanks to the 129,905 children in the state of Washington for participating in this year's voting.

Highland Terrace students voted as their favorite Washington Childrens' Choice Picture Book as The Magic Word by Mac Barnett

There are the nominees for the 2018-2019 Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award.

Starting in 1938, one book a year has received the Caldecott Award to recognize it as being a great picture book for children. Students in grades 2-6 are encouraged to read as many Caldecott books as they can during their time at Highland Terrace.

2018 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

2018 Medal Winner

“Wolf in the Snow,” illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell, and published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan.

In this spare, nearly wordless picture book, a girl and a wolf cub each get lost in the snow and rescue each other. Cordell uses pen and ink and watercolor wash to capture the frenzied snowfall and the brave girl’s frantic, frightful journey. Fairy tale elements and a strong sense of color and geometry offer an engrossing, emotionally charged story.

“HOOOOOWWLLLL!!” said Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Tish Wilson. “Committee members were astonished that a deceptively simple book could be such a dramatic story of survival.”

Fiction

Sasquatch and Young Reader's Choice Award Nominees

Sasquatch Nominees

The Sasquatch Award Nominees are chapter books selected by the Washington Library Media Association. The books on this list are usually easier to read than the Young Reader’s Choice Nominees. Thousands of students throughout the state of Washington read the books and vote for their favorite. Last year’s winner was Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson.

The Young Reader's Choice Award Nominees ( 4th - 6th grades) are chapter books selected by the Pacific Northwest Library Association. It is the oldest children's choice award in the U.S. and Canada. There are three categories of nominees; Junior, Intermediate, and Senior. Most of the books available to Highland Terrace students are Junior nominees. Thousands of students throughout Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alberta read the YRC nominees.

2017 Medal Winner

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, written by Kelly Barnhill and published by Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing.

“Moonlight is magic. Ask anyone you like.” Barnhill’s story is also pure magic, distinguished by careful development of a complex plot and indelible evocation of unique characters. Love, heartbreak, hope, sorrow, and wonder all shine in exquisite, lyrical prose.

“This compassionate, hopeful novel invites children everywhere to harness their power, and ask important questions about what keeps us apart and what brings us together” said Newbery Medal Committee Chair Thom Barthelmess.

Coretta Scott King Awards

The Coretta Scott King (CSK) Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.

2017 CSK Author Award Winner

The 2017 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Author Winner is given to Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin for March Book: Three, published by Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works LLC.

“March: Book Three,” is a first-hand account of the Civil Rights Movement through Lewis’ eyes. Using vivid language and dynamic visual storytelling, it details events from the Freedom Summer to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Readers experience the realities of segregation, the sacrifices required for the struggle and the courage that defines true leaders.

Co-author John Lewis is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district and an iconic African-American civil rights activist, who chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Co-author Andrew Aydin is the digital director and policy advisor in Rep. Lewis’s Washington, D.C. office. They won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award in 2014 for the first volume in the series, March: Book One.

“’March: Book Three’ is a riveting and multilayered graphic personal history of the civil rights movement and a window into the mind and experiences of a living legend,” said Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury Chair Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop.

2017 CSK Illustrator Award Winner

The 2017 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Illustrator Winner is given to Javaka Steptoe, illustrator and author of Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, published by Little, Brown and Company.

In Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, collage style paintings with rich texture, bold colors and thick lines take readers on an emotional journey. Steptoe’s style blends with motifs from Basquiat’s own art to create this stunning picture book biography.

“Steptoe’s illustrations for Radiant Child are striking. Painted on found wood, they echo the ‘sloppy, ugly, and sometimes weird, but somehow still beautiful’ quality of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art, while relating the story of his difficult life,” said Bishop.

Javaka Steptoe is an artist, designer and children’s book illustrator. His debut work, In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers, an anthology featuring poetry from notable poets, including Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson and Carole Boston Weatherford, Angela Johnson and Sonia Sanchez, earned him his first Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, in 1998; Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow (written by Gary Golio), received a CSK Illustrator Honor in 2011. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Non-Fiction

Sibert Award Non-Fiction Books

2017 Sibert Medal Winner

March: Book Three, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell, and published by Top Shelf Productions.

March is a memoir chronicling Lewis’s lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. Carefully selected dialog and first-person accounts combine with panels, word balloons, and creative lettering in a stunning display of the comics medium.

“The skillful work of Lewis, Aydin and Powell invites readers to walk in Lewis’s shoes, calling them to reflect on his experiences and to see his story of courage and resistance as America’s own,” said Sibert Medal Committee Chair Caitlin D. Jacobson.